Word: steinway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surrounded by personal representatives, pressagents and recording executives, Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr. strode into the mahogany-stained elegance of Manhattan's Steinway Hall one day last week to chat about his improbably skyrocketing career. During the fall and winter season, he said, he would play roughly 55 concerts with orchestras across the country. He would also throw his rehearsals open to teenagers. He drew a check for $1,250 from his pocket (part of his $6,250 Moscow prize money) and presented it to the city of New York to be used to start other young artists on their...
Victory. For two months, from the time he was accepted until he left for Moscow, Van shut himself away in his tiny Manhattan apartment on 57th Street across from Carnegie Hall and spent six to eight hours a day at his quilt-covered Steinway practicing the staggering repertory each entrant was expected to master. Plagued with colitis, he dutifully went in for dieting and rigorous physical conditioning, boosted his strength with massive doses of vitamins and six packages of Knox gelatin a day. Sundays he checked his progress with Mme. Lhevinne, or gave small private recitals for groups of friends...
Leogene Graffteiner is really four pianists: Gary Graffman, Leon Fleisher, Eugene Istomin and Jacob Lateiner. The first three are close friends, and all share an extravagant admiration for an ancient Steinway concert grand known as "Old 199." Because they pass it from one to another while touring in the U.S., they refer to its current player by a composite name. Graffman & Co. today are in the forefront of a group of young U.S. pianists who have recently made the perilous leap from prodigy to professional artist...
...scholarship at Curtis, where he studied under Pianist Rudolf Serkin. San Francisco-born Leon Fleisher studied under Artur Schnabel in Manhattan, got his biggest professional boost five years ago when he won Belgium's International Concours. Nowadays when the three are in Manhattan together, they reserve Steinway's basement on 57th Street every free evening and test new pianos ("We are always on the lookout for pianos that are good for Mozart and also Prokofiev") and play for one another until midnight. When one of the trio is playing well, there is nothing but the sound...
Died. Theodore Edwin Stein way, 73, board chairman of Steinway & Sons, who could "put a piano together blindfolded," grandson of Founder (in 1853) Henry Engelhard Steinway and one of the world's leading stamp collectors; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...